O. 1: 17, f. 22;
C. O. 1: 17, ff. 24, 25; C. O. 1: 17, ff. 26, 27; P. C. R., Charles
II, 3: 336-338.

[68] C. O. 1: 17, ff. 225, 226, petition of the Royal Adventurers to
the king, November, 1663.

[69] Willoughby made a restitution of the L320 in March, 1664. C. O.
1: 18, f. 86, Modyford and Colleton to (the Royal Adventurers), March
31, 1664.

[70] C. O. 1: 19, f. 124, Willoughby to the king, May 20, 1665.

[71] C. O. 1: 16, f. 112, additional instructions to Lord Windsor,
governor of Jamaica, April 8, 1662.

[72] C. S. P., Col., 1661-1668, p. 106, minutes of the council of
Jamaica, August 20, 1662.

[73] A full description of privateering by the English against the
Spaniards from the year 1660 to 1670 may be found in an article by
Miss Violet Barbour in the American Historical Review, XVI: 529-566.

[74] C. S. P., Col., 1661-1668, p. 125 (the king to the governors of
Barbadoes and Jamaica), March 13, 1663.

[75] C. O. 1: 17, f. 199, Sir Charles Lyttleton, deputy governor, to
Bennet, October 15, 1663.

[76] _Ibid._, 18, f. 137, Modyford to the governor of Santo Domingo,
April 30, 1664.

[77] _Ibid._, f. 139, Modyford's instructions to Colonel Cary and
Captain Perrott, May 2, 1664.

[78] C. O. 1: 18, ff. 152, 153, Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Lynch to
Bennet. May 25, 1664.

[79] C. S. P., Col., 1661-1668, p. 215, the king to Modyford, June 15,
1664.

[80] _Ibid._, p. 220, proclamation by Sir Thomas Modyford, governor of
Jamaica, June 15, 1664.

[81] _Ibid._, p. 228, minutes of the council of Jamaica, August 19-22,
1664.

[82] C. S. P., Dom., 1663-1664, p. 168, Richard White to Captain Weld,
June 11, 1663.

[83] As this contract cannot be discovered it is difficult to say just
when it was made or what were its conditions. Georges Scelle in his
book, La Traite Negriere aux Indes de Castille, 1: 524, gives the date
of this contract as February 28, 1663, and says it was for 35,000
Negroes which were to be delivered at the rate of 5,000 per year. This
may be true, but on the other hand the company distinctly declares in
one place that the contract was for the annual delivery of 3,500
Negroes per year. C. O. 1: 19, ff. 7, 8, brief narrative of the trade
and present condition of the Royal Adventurers, 1664/5.

[84] C. O. 1: 17, f. 189, memorial of Sir Ellis Leighton to the duke
of York, 1663.

[85] _Ibid._, ff. 244, 247; A. C. R., 75: 48.

[86] A. C. R., 75: 15, August 5, 1664.

[87] _Ibid._, 75: 3